March 2020

How We Respond to COVID-19 Will Forever Shape Future Generations

Our response, as parents, communities, leaders, and governments, to the COVID-19 crisis will forever shape our children and the generations to come. We can react to the situation out of fear, or we can choose to react to the situation out of love, strength, and courage. Choosing love, doesn’t mean that concern about the crisis …

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The Best, Free or Cheap COVID-19 Homeschooling Resources and Classes Online

If there’s a silver lining to the Coronavirus crisis, it’s the explosion in the number of free or cheap homeschooling resources and classes online. There are so many exciting opportunities for children (and parents!) online right now thanks to the generosity of businesses and shut-in economy innovation. Here are some of these free or cheap …

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When Homeschooling Feels Hard

If Homeschooling Has You in Tears, You’re Not Alone, Mama

If homeschooling has been forced on you because of the COVID-19 crisis and you’ve already shed enough tears to fill a bathtub, you’re not alone, Mama. Or Dad for that matter. And if you dream about homeschooling, but you’re worried you won’t make the cut or don’t have enough strength or guts, Mama… (or Dad)… …

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Stay Sane While You Homeschool, Don’t Re-Create School at Home

Whatever you do, during a pandemic or not, don’t re-create school at home. Let me say this another way: Don’t. Re-create. School. At. Home. When I started homeschooling my children 10+ years ago, after my oldest child left a public Spanish immersion elementary school program, I had a lot of anxiety about how to homeschool. …

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